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A Protagorean Approach to the Theory, Practice and Pedagogy of Argument

By: Michael Mendelson

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Hardcover | 31 March 2002

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Many Sides is the first full-length study of Protagorean antilogic, an argumentative practice with deep roots in rhetorical history and renewed relevance for contemporary culture.

Founded on the philosophical relativism of Protagoras, antilogic is a dynamic rather than a formal approach to argument, focused principally on the dialogical interaction of opposing positions (anti-logoi) in controversy. In ancient Athens, antilogic was the cardinal feature of Sophistic rhetoric. In Rome, Cicero redefined Sophistic argument in a concrete set of dialogical procedures. In turn, Quintilian inherited this dialogical tradition and made it the centrepiece of his own rhetorical practice and pedagogy.

Many Sides explores the history, theory, and pedagogy of this neglected rhetorical tradition and, by appeal to recent rhetorical and philosophical theory, reconceives the enduring features of antilogical practice in a dialogical approach to argumentation especially suited to the pluralism of our own age and the diversity of modern classrooms.

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Introduction	p. xi
Greek Origins and Organizing Principles
Protagoras and the Philosophic Origins of Antilogic	p. 1
The Protagorean fragments and the theory of perspectivism	p. 3
The case against the human-measure doctrine	p. 12
Protagorean relativism and the human-measure doctrine	p. 23
Some implications of Protagorean philosophy for rhetoic	p. 34
Protagorean Practice and the Nature of Antilogic	p. 43
Antilogic translated and deined	p. 47
Antilogic, eistic, and dialectic	p. 58
Antilogic in its original context	p. 65
Pragmatism, Ethics, and the Function of Antilogic	p. 73
The pragmatic dimensions of antilogic	p. 74
The ethical dimensions of antilogic	p. 86
The Rhetorical Form of Antilogic	p. 101
Early forms of antilogical techne	p. 103
The principles of antilogic as praxis	p. 112
Roman Developments in Practice and Pedagogy
De Oratore and the Development of Controversia	p. 135
From antilogic to controversia	p. 138
The drama of Book 1	p. 144
Controversia and the single speaker in Book III	p. 162
The question of Cicero's pedagogy	p. 166
Quintilian and the Pedagogy of Controversia	p. 173
An historical prelude	p. 178
Quintilian's use of controversial method	p. 181
Quintilian's pedagogy of rhetoric and argument	p. 187
Quintilian and pedagogical transformation	p. 206
Epilogue: An Appropriate Pedagogy for Antilogical Argument	p. 213
A philosophical prelude	p. 216
The dialogue of antilogic and the pedagogy of invention	p. 222
Practical judgment and its challenge to instruction	p. 233
Protagorean antilogic in the contemporary classroom	p. 244
Notes	p. 257
References	p. 275
Index	p. 293
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